All-Star starter Burnes has no complaints about reasons for chaos but hes ready for normal agai

  • January 21, 2026 6:36 PM PST

    ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Corbin Burnes is ready to get back into a more normal routine, though the Baltimore right-hander has no complaints about why things have been so chaotic for him in the last few weeks. Burnes allowed one run and two hits over six innings when the AL East-leading over the reigning World Series champion Texas Rangers on Friday night. Since his last game for the Orioles on July 10, to spend Troy Brown Jersey time with his newborn twin daughters. There was also a one-day trip to Texas in between to start the All-Star Game. Yeah, its been a lot. You know, its kind of one of those sacrifices I knew I was going to make when the family was going to spend the year there, Burnes said. Fortunately, everythings been going well. So youre not going to complain about having to fly to go see the family. But definitely looking forward to kind of having a normal week. Burnes (10-4) was back on the same mound where he started the . He struck out six, but also had a season-high four walks while throwing 60 of 101 pitches for strikes. It felt like a normal start ... once I get going in my routine pregame, to be able to kind of switch and lock in a little bit, he said. The only run he gave up was on Nathaniel Lowe's home run to straightway center in the second inning after the Orioles had already hit a pair of two-run homers. Yeah, definitely not a normal in-between starts routine for him, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. He goes home, not normal rest, pitches in the All-Star Game, throws an inning. Then two days off and then back out in the big league game and didnt look like he mi sed a beat. He was fantastic tonight. An All-Star for the fourth time, Burnes first went home before flying to Texas the morning of that game. He went back to Arizona after throwing a scorele s first inning, then rejoined his teammates for the resumption of the regular season against the Rangers. The 29-year-old Burnes has a 2.38 ERA in his first year with Baltimore, after being traded from Milwaukee in February. He can become a free agent after the season, but for now is the ace for the Orioles (59-38) as they try to make playoffs for the second year in a row. Burnes has completed at least six innings in 15 consecutive starts. That is a career high and the longest streak for an Orioles pitcher since Sidney Ponsons 16 in a row 20 years ago. Hes a top-of-the-rotation guy and one of the best in the league. Hes pitched like it so far this year," Hyde said before the game when asked what he's learned about Burnes. "Yeah, full package. Its been great for the rest of our pitching staff to get six, seven innings almost every time out. Isaac Bonga Jersey